GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |
| paradigm | example |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |